Trump video promises Day One 'executive actions' on trade, energy, regulations, cyber attacks, visa abuse and lobbying bans – but nothing about immigration 'amnesty'

  • President-elect issued his first scripted video message to Americans since his stunning Election Day victory on Nov. 8
  • Made six promises for 'Day One,' including actions he can take on his own
  • Pledged to start withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • Also pledged to roll back unspecified limits on coal and shale energy
  • Said he would demand visa-abuse reforms from the Labor Department and a plan from Defense chiefs to combat cyber attacks against the homeland 
  • Trump's video made no mention of reversing 'DACA' or 'DAPA,' President Obama's order that shields millions of illegal immigrants from deportation

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com

Published: 18:53 EST, 21 November 2016 | Updated: 22:14 EST, 21 November 2016

President-elect Donald Trump has given Americans their first taste of what he has planned for his first days in the White House.

In a brief YouTube video released Monday at dinnertime, Trump outlined six policy promises – all items he campaigned on – that he could accomplish with the stroke of a pen. Missing, however, was any mention of rolling back President Barack Obama's orders that protect millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. 

His ideas include withdrawing from the much-pilloried Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, relaxing federal 'restrictions' on coal and shale energy production, and kick-starting a comprehensive plan to protect the U.S. from cyber attacks.

He also vowed to end visa abuses by visitors to the country and shrink the sheer volume of regulations the government issues. And Trump renewed a pledge to prohibit officials in his administration from using a longstanding revolving door to lobby the government after they leave the public sector. 

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President-elect Donald Trump delivered his first video message to Americans since his stunning election victory on Nov. 8, pledging 'executive actions' on trade, energy, regulations, cyber attacks, visa abuse and lobbying bans

Trump's video, pushed out Monday evening on YouTube, repeated many of the pledges he made to cheering crowds during his campaign – but only those he can accomplish without Congress

Trump described his reforms as his team's 'policy plans for the first 100 days.'

He also said they came from 'a list of executive actions we can take on Day One to restore our laws and bring back our jobs. It's about time.'

The first action he mentioned involved pulling the U.S. out of a controversial trade deal that he pilloried nonstop – reminding voters that his foe Hillary Clinton once called it 'the gold standard' for the kind of multilateral trade cooperation that he argued would cost the U.S. untold numbers of jobs.

'I am going to issue our notice of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potential disaster for our country,' he said on the video. 

'Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores.'

Trump also framed his energy agenda in terms of jobs, in keeping with his campaign themes.

'I will cancel job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale energy and clean coal,' he said, 'creating many millions of high-paying jobs.' 

'That's what we want. that's what we've been waiting for.'

He also cast reform of the Homeland Security Department's visa-entry program as a jobs priority, assigning the Labor Department responsibility for making sure foreign workers aren't given hiring preference over American citizens.

'I will direct the Department of Labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker,' he promised.

Actions that don't reflect on the job market include a demand that his new military leaders make preventing cyber attacks by foreign powers a priority.

'I will ask the Department of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a comprehensive plan to protect America's vital infrastructure from cyber attacks, and all other form of attacks,' he said. 

And he said he would make good on his promise to strictly limit the ability of government officials to reinvent themselves as lobbyists.

His transition team has already enacted a lobbyist purge. 

'As part of our plan to "drain the swamp," we will impose a five-year ban on executive officials becoming lobbyists after they leave the administration,' Trump says in the video, 'and a lifetime ban on executive officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.'

And the president-elect condensed his regulation-reduction plan into a six-second soundbite'

'I will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. So important,' he said.

President Obama's twin programs that protect millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), did not make appearances on Trump's top-ranking to do list.

Those programs, like the president-elect's lobbying bans and his regulatory reform package, could be accomplished with the stroke of a pen by discontinuing the Obama executive orders that created them.

Also missing is any mention of the 'repeal and replace' plan Trump has touted for the Obamacare law: He will need help from Congress to make that happen.

Trump has faced criticism from quick-judging journalists and Democrats who have characterized his transition as chaotic and full of fits and starts. 

'Our transition team is working very smoothly, efficiently and effectively,' Trump declares in the video.

'Truly great and talented men and women, patriots indeed, are being brought in. And many will soon be part of our government, helping us to make America great again.'

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